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We ran into some problems last week where we did some database maintenance and did not turn the archive logs off. The archive log directory filled up and we inadvertantly deleted 56 archive logs. Now, my RMAN will not archive the new logs out of the directory. We get these errors:

If I remove the part that backups the logs, will I put it back in tomorrow? Will it still delete them out of my archive directory? Will it remove the references to the deleted ones? Or will it ask for them again after I put the backup line back in?

My archive log filesystem is on schedule to fill up tomorrow. (We keep getting more archive logs, none of them are being deleted.) I have searched and searched for a solution. I have found a couple of references to run this command from inside RMAN:

change archivelog all validate;

Will that fix it or make it worse? Thanks for your help, I'm getting a bit nervous.
Debi

From Metalink..
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The common mistake is migrating or removing archived redo log files without
using RMAN which rises error RMAN-6089 during the backup or restore
operation. It may be not feasible to make archived redo logs unavailable with
above approach after massive file deletion. To notify the recovery catalog about
missing archived redo logs, a change archivelog all validate command will be
more suitable.